Sunset smells of dinnerWomen are calling at me to end my talesBut perhaps I’ll see you the next quiet placeI furl my sails— Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Lee Shore David Crosby grew on me over time. He was always the troublemaker in the two famous bands he was an integral part of, always pushing…
Every day I die again, and again I’m rebornEvery day I have to find the courageTo walk out into the streetWith arms outGot a love you can’t defeatNeither down nor outThere’s nothing you have that I needI can breatheBreathe now— U2, Breathe When you settle into a conversation about the best U2 songs, well, it’s…
“The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one’s way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.” — Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was an Austrian composer who’s work is familiar to us whether we know it or not….
Kindred comes from a combination of kin and the Old English word ræden (“condition”), which itself comes from the verb rædan, meaning “to advise.” — Merriam-Webster Dictionary Talking to a friend about poetry, I mentioned a poem by Li-Young Lee, and paused our phone conversation while she read it, waiting for the payoff when one…
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothin’. They’re your days. Choke ’em.” — Tom Waits We look up sometimes and wonder where the time…
Look around meI can see my life before meRunning rings around the way it used to beI am older nowI have more than what I wantedBut I wish that I had started long before I didAnd there’s so much time to make up everywhere you turnTime we have wasted on the waySo much water moving…
“Why shouldn’t we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music […], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?” — Elizabeth Bishop For all the big plans we make, most of our life is lived…
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables And now the end is hereAnd so I face that final curtainMy friend I’ll make it clearI’ll state my case, of which I’m certainI’ve lived a life that’s fullI traveled each and every highwayAnd more, much moreI did it,…
I never did believe in miraclesBut I’ve a feeling it’s time to tryI never did believe in the ways of magicBut I’m beginning to wonder why— Fleetwood Mac, You Make Loving Fun Fleetwood Mac was seemingly everywhere in the late 1970’s, and I was just old enough to appreciate what I was hearing, but young…
“Two students had studied for many years with a wise old master. One day the master said to them, “Students, the time has come for you to go out into the world. Your life there will be felicitous if you find in it all things shining.” The students left the master with a mixture of…